10-letter words containing z, s
- outdazzles — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outdazzle.
- ozonolysis — the reaction of ozone with hydrocarbons.
- parasitize — to live on (a host) as a parasite.
- passamezzo — an Italian dance of the 16th and 17th centuries, similar to the pavane
- pasteurize — to expose (a food, as milk, cheese, yogurt, beer, or wine) to an elevated temperature for a period of time sufficient to destroy certain microorganisms, as those that can produce disease or cause spoilage or undesirable fermentation of food, without radically altering taste or quality.
- pestalozzi — Johann Heinrich [German yoh-hahn hahyn-rikh] /German ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1746–1827, Swiss educational reformer.
- phantasize — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- pint-sized — If you describe someone or something as pint-sized, you think they are smaller than is normal or smaller than they should be.
- pizza base — a disc of dough used as a base for a pizza
- plasmolyze — to subject to or undergo plasmolysis
- plasticize — to make or become plastic, as by the addition of a plasticizer
- postfreeze — taking place after a freeze
- posturized — to posture; pose.
- pressurize — to raise the internal atmospheric pressure of to the required or desired level: to pressurize an astronaut's spacesuit before a walk in space.
- prize list — a list of winners of a prize or prizes
- psalmodize — to sing psalms
- queen-size — (of a bed) larger than a double bed, but smaller than king-size, usually 60 inches (152 cm) wide and 80 inches (203 cm) long.
- quizmaster — a person who asks questions of contestants in a game, especially as part of a radio or television program.
- quizziness — unusualness, eccentricity
- recognizes — to identify as something or someone previously seen, known, etc.: He had changed so much that one could scarcely recognize him.
- rendezvous — an agreement between two or more persons to meet at a certain time and place.
- rhapsodize — to talk with extravagant enthusiasm.
- rose topaz — a rose-pink form of topaz produced by heating yellow-brown topaz
- russianize — to make Russian; impart Russian characteristics to.
- saccharize — to convert into sugar; saccharify.
- sacralized — to make sacred; imbue with sacred character, especially through ritualized devotion: a society that sacralized science.
- salmanazar — a wine bottle holding from 10 to 12 quarts (9.5 to 11.4 liters).
- salt glaze — a ceramic glaze on stoneware produced by the chemical reaction that occurs when salt is thrown into a kiln during firing.
- salzgitter — a city in Lower Saxony, in central Germany, SE of Hanover.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sanitizing — to free from dirt, germs, etc., as by cleaning or sterilizing.
- santa cruz — a city on the coast of California.
- satirizing — to attack or ridicule with satire.
- scandalize — to shock or horrify by something considered immoral or improper.
- schematize — to reduce to or arrange according to a scheme.
- scherzando — (a musical direction) playful; sportive.
- schizocarp — a dry, dehiscent fruit that at maturity splits into two or more one-seeded carpels.
- schizogamy — reproduction characterized by division of the organism into sexual and asexual parts, as in certain polychaetes.
- schizogony — (in the asexual reproduction of certain sporozoans) the multiple fission of a trophozoite or schizont into merozoites.
- schizoidal — relating to a person with a schizoid personality disorder
- schlimazel — an inept, bungling person who suffers from unremitting bad luck.
- schnitzler — Arthur [ahr-ther;; German ahr-too r] /ˈɑr θər;; German ˈɑr tʊər/ (Show IPA), 1862–1931, Austrian dramatist and novelist.
- schnozzola — a nose, especially one of unusually large size.
- schwarzlot — a type of black decoration on German glassware and ceramics that was popular in the 17th and 18th centuries
- schweitzer — Albert, 1875–1965, Alsatian writer, missionary, doctor, and musician in Africa: Nobel Peace Prize 1952.
- sclerotize — to harden and darken (an insect's cuticle)
- scorzonera — a plant of the modern genus Scorzonera, esp S. Hispanica or black salsify, cultivated in Europe for its root which is used as a vegetable
- scrutinize — to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
- scyphozoan — any coelenterate of the class Scyphozoa, comprising the true marine jellyfishes.
- sea breeze — a thermally produced wind blowing from a cool ocean surface onto adjoining warm land.